The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-23
increase taxation. 1t would be thou
sand times better, my friends, to pay 8

sand times better, my friends, to pay q
little more tax and have the country
saved and you who want to see your
country prosper go to work and eradicate
this great evil from your midst. You
will more than save enough in honest
lives and redeemed In hopes to pay you
for any littls intfease id taxation.
I'll tell you there isn't a bar.keeper in
town but whose support is contributed
to by every one of.you. You stand on a
matter Of taxes. You say to the bar
keeper, all right you go ahead, and damn
the country all you please. All We want
is a fair divide; you help us pay our
taxes. Give us dividend at the end OF
the year and we wont say a word. Every
voter in this town is a partner in these
saloons and receives his annual profits
from them. Every street to these
churches is paved by blood money hand
ed over the counter of these death and
damnation dealing saloons. ;,
And then they say it will hurt your
town. am tired of that cant expressed
in the old saying, stake the calf away
and the COW will go dry" Jim Harrison,
in our town, said his fathet had COW
that give milk fot fourteen years and she
never had calf and her mother never
had d calf; SO that's not 80. One Of
these lies is about as reasonable as the
other.
The marshall of my. town put up two
things as candidates and met ole hun
dred and Fifty citiasns of the town and
asked each one Of them who he had
rather vote for for responsible place, a
drunken man OF hog, and they all said
the hog. The same one hundred and
fifty men said they had rather have q hog
in their parlors than drunken man, and
so would you.
What do these saloons do but. make
drunkards, and what is a drunksrd good
for =
A voice from the circle cried: "For
the Salvation Army"
sI don't know whether the brother
meant for the drunkard to 60 to the Sal
yation Army to be worked on, but any.
way say
GOD BLESS THE SALVATION ARMY.
Everywhere / go I say hurrah for the
Salvation Army. You can't afford to
fight the Salvation Army; you Metho.
dist preachers can't, because 25 years ago
you were nothing but Salvation Army,
without money euought to buy fife and
drum. ft.sI. 4s::
But to go on, do drunkards make any.
thing good? Do they make good engin-
eers, good clerks, good anything? No.
Did you ever think of what it costs to
make q drunkard? Sam Small said it
cost more than necessary to paint the
capitol at Washington itlcost him. $10,-
900, and all he could borrow and beg,
and then he only got his pale pink, and
he didn't know what il would cost to
paint it blood red.
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
Let US talk to men, my friends, accord.
ing to their views. If mans heart is
wrong, lets talk'to him of the glories of
the cross and the everlasting truth of
religion; if his pocket is at stake, lets
convince him thatit is better to let-all
the money in The world go, than to burn
and cause others to burn forever in per.
dition.
One fault with us is that We do not re-.
cognize these saloon men as our brother
men. They are our brothers. Now,
suppose, we were all one family and we
were dividing up the trades, ETC., among
US so that the society of brothers muet
prosper. One is mschinist, one far
mer, another merchant, and so on, and
here, Tom, you must open saloon SO
that We may prosper. Would We do
that? Would we open up saloon to
destroy all the others? Must we debauch
a large number of our brethren in order
that one or two may prosper? No; God
forbid /!
We might as well say that we would
establish brothels and gambling houses
for the prosperity and happiness of our
brothers aud sisters
You are building Chattanooga up.
Does liquor enter into any of the build.
ing materially What part of the house
is built out of whisky? Is there any
machinery made out of whisky or what
part does whisky play in running your
machinery Ah, but they say whisky
makes your property grow in value.
Suppose 1.put saloon next to your cor
ner over there on the bill. You will say
I'd rather than $500 you'd take it fl r'her
away. Ii the distance it is from your
property has anything to do with its val.
ne, let's pus them all in the middle of the
Atlantic.
Ah, my friends you folks are going to
have a fight here in Tennessee. The
brewers of Baltimore and elsewhere are
voting money to defeat you in the fight.
Now you who want to see the country
saved, who want to see your country
prosper, put your shoulders to the wheel
and beat the great evil.
I'll tell you Floyd county Georgia is
going to vote whisky out of Rome.
Them. fellows down in Rome have
been emptying their whisky down on US
in Gainesville, and you fellows in Chat.
tanooga are doing the same thing, and l
want to knit legs on your demijons and
walk thera out Of Tennessee. Pye per-
soual motive in this thing. I want you
too,,;t norr;no vonr do NINA hle slnah down